Today is the day after Thanksgiving. We taught Dennis our program director about this US holiday and he thought it was good to have a special day for offering a general thanks but to whom For what exactly People from India do not understand what Tha ...

On September 3 2018 we began the maiden voyage of our narrowboat Horatio Sprague. Strictly speaking this was not the maiden voyage as we had already sailed the boat from Steve Heywood's boatyard in Stone some 85 miles to Tewkesbury in February. But then ...

Esta maana segua lloviendo y he hecho tiempo en el hostal. Para cuando he salido haban pasado las 10 y todava me he mojado. A las 12 ha parado de llover y ha salido el sol y ha empezado a hacer bastante calor...Hoy mucho pueblo pequeo y tram ...

Montag 12.11.18Heute war frh aufstehen angesagt. Da Ting Yu in Shengkeng arbeitet fuhr ich mit ihm dorthin um von dort aus einige Sehenswrdigkeiten auf dem Weg nach Keelung zurck zu besuchen. Wir kamen kurz vor 08.00 Uhr an. Natrlich waren die ...

Breakfast today required you to hand in a voucher given by reception when you check in. Very odd system. It was a somewhat disappointing buffet containing mostly noodles and chicken stir fry. No cereal options. We ended up having banana and honey on to... ...

Luang Prabang every time I say that I want to say kipperbang kipperbang a reference only older folk might get.Once ensconced in the hotel we sauntered out following the river Mam Khan down to the Mekong and headed to the Bamboo Restaurant ...

Greetings once more from me and Happy Christmas I suppose It's certainly cold but I can't say it's feeling particularly Christmassy here although it's been nice to see some Christmas trees up in big shopping malls. I think the most festive I've felt so ...

Firstly yes a day bus from inle lake to bagan exists and its a coach not a mini bus. Googling it I couldnt find any evidence of its existence so I was pleased to find it.It does make for a slightly dull day to report though... We woke up ea ...

I developed a slight obsession with glaciers after seeing them up close for the first time in Iceland and was excited to visit some others. We got lucky with the weather on the first day and were able to do a helicopter tour to walk on the glaciers which ...

Hokitika is a cute little artsy town near an amazing blue gorge colored by water from glaciers. Both were fantastic...it's still hard to believe that water color is real ...